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- Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:20 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Note to late daters
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1573
Re: Note to late daters
In the current issue of Dead Sea Discoveries 28.1 (2021), Laura Quick, “Bitenosh’s Orgasm, Galen’s Two Seeds and Conception Theory in the Hebrew Bible” the Abstract includes: “…. in this essay I argue that rather than deriving these ideas [of embryogenesis] from the Greco-Roman world, the conception...
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:43 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Parallelomania: on Sandmel’s 1962 article
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1043
Parallelomania: on Sandmel’s 1962 article
“Parallelomania” is the title of an article by Samuel Sandmel in Journal of Biblical Literature 81.1 (March 1962) 1-13, from a December 27, 1961 lecture, which is influential but may not be entirely reliable. Sandmel began: “I encountered the term parallelomania, as I recall, in a French book of abo...
- Mon Feb 15, 2021 6:48 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: The fate of the Pharisees
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2596
Re: The fate of the Pharisees
Albert Baumgarten, “The Name of the Pharisees,” J. of Biblical Literature 1983, proposed two meanings of the name: pĕrûšîm,“separatists,” and pārôšîm,“specifiers.” After the destruction of the Temple, there were efforts to reduce separatism, so the name Pharisee in the sense of separatist was dislik...
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: 84000 Secret Manuscripts Found (18 years ago)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1706
Re: 84000 Secret Manuscripts Found (18 years ago)
And, as with the Dead Sea Scrolls, there were also Dunhuang forgeries. If interested, the book, Dunhuang Manuscript Forgeries, edited by Susan Whitfield (The British Library, 2002) has details. Table of Contents here:
http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/336227256.pdf
http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/336227256.pdf
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:01 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: 84000 Secret Manuscripts Found (18 years ago)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1706
Re: 84000 Secret Manuscripts Found (18 years ago)
Yes, a very important find, though it happened closer to one hundred and eighteen years ago. Important largely for Buddhism and translation studies, but also, along with the slightly later Asian find at Turfan (or Turpan), important for comparative views of apocalyptic, angels, Enoch, Nestorian Chri...
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What's in the Vatican archives?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3814
Re: What's in the Vatican archives?
Because of wars, fires, leadership quarrels, non-continuous operation, and probably also other factors unhelpful to preserving ancient mss.
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 4:42 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: What's in the Vatican archives?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3814
Re: What's in the Vatican archives?
You may imagine "they have stuff like a copy of Marcion's New Testament" but imo that is exceedingly unlikely.
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 6:02 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Note to late daters
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1573
Note to late daters
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” appeared in 1895 in the context of geology discussion, I noted elsewhere. But then the “Quote Investigator” blogger found a precursor in Live Stock Journal of 1891. And (meta) the saying may well be older than that. In an earlier posting on ane-3 list...
- Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:27 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Josephus issue of JS internet journal
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2796
Josephus issue of JS internet journal
Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal 19 (2020) -- Special Josephus Issue https://jewish-faculty.biu.ac.il/en/node/1602 Michael Avioz and Meir Ben Shahar, "Editors’ Preface" Kenneth Atkinson, "Josephus's Use of Scripture to Describe Hasmonean Territorial Expansion" Meir Ben Shahar, "Dating the Destruc...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 4:32 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The case for John of Gischala eclipsed as "John the Baptist" in Mark
- Replies: 28
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Re: The case for John of Gischala eclipsed as "John the Baptist" in Mark
StephenGoranson wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:18 am
mary helena, and were Pliny the Elder and Dio also writing fiction about Essenes?
maryhelena:
Philo set the agenda.......
Hmmm. Pliny named hundreds of his sources. Where's Waldo, I mean, Philo of Alexandria?
Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:18 am
mary helena, and were Pliny the Elder and Dio also writing fiction about Essenes?
maryhelena:
Philo set the agenda.......
Hmmm. Pliny named hundreds of his sources. Where's Waldo, I mean, Philo of Alexandria?